What happened? AWS, Oracle Cloud, and Tencent Cloud all announced that they brought new regions online last week. AWS added a new Middle East region in Bahrain, Oracle unveiled their Mumbai region in India, and Tencent Cloud has officially entered Japan with their Tokyo region. What does this mean? The battle for cloud supremacy is…
Insights from KubeCon EU 2019 This past week, KubeCon was held in Barcelona from May 20-23. Liftr Cloud’s Principal Analyst Paul Teich was in attendance, sending back interesting insights and key points on the event. According to Teich, machine learning was a hot topic. Discussions centered around not only data science, but also the ability…
Azure Announces ONNX Integration Microsoft Azure announced at the beginning of last week a preview of Open Neural Network Exchange’s Runtime, or ONNX Runtime, support for NVIDIA’s TensorRT. ONNX is an open format for deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence model exchange that was co-developed by Microsoft, Facebook, and AWS. ONNX allows developers the freedom…
Oracle Sues the U.S. Government Oracle has filed a federal court suit against the U.S. government, alleging that the decade long $10 billion Pentagon JEDI contract to a single vendor is both unfair and illegal. Oracle has been complaining for months that it believes the contract has been written to favor the industry leader AWS.…
Revenue generated from public cloud infrastructure now accounts for more than one-third of global IT infrastructure sales, according to second-quarter figures released by International Data Corporation. Meanwhile, IDC says demand for non-cloud IT services is continuing to decline rapidly, though traditional offerings still make up more than half the global share of IT revenue. Spending…